Using Family Connection On-line Resource for Planning & Advising Overview for Parents

2 Overview What is Family Connection? How do I access it? How do you register? What can I do with it? How does it help career and college planning?

3 What is it? Web-based resource that supports course, career, and college planning Specific to our school Linked with Counselor’s Office, a service that we use in the counseling office

4 How is it accessed? Family Connection is on the Web Parent accounts Student accounts

5 How do you register? Each parent and student receives a code Use code to create a personal account Codes are random and alphanumeric for security reasons Codes can be used only once On your first visit, enter the code in the New User box, then follow on-screen instructions On subsequent visits, sign in using the Returning User box

6 What can it do? Share plans Complete surveys Compare colleges Links to selected third-party resources Track deadlines Produce scattergrams Show schedule of college visits

7 Main Page

8 After Sign in

9 College Profile

10 Surveys

11 College Compare

12 Scattergram

13 Visit Schedule

14 How does it help? Shared resource linking home to school On-line tool for collaboration among counselors, students, and parents Accurate, complete records about student choices from our school Realistic assessments of your child’s chances of admission at colleges where prior graduates have applied

15 Questions For more information, please contact your child’s counselor